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the October
uprising,
she
organised
women-workers into
fighting
cells in
one
of Moscow
working
class
districts.
Rozmirovich Elena
Fedorovna,
1886-1953
(party
pseudonyms
-
Galina
Troianovskaia,
Evgeniia)
born into
a
noble
family
in Kherson
guberniia.
She
was a
graduate
of
a
high
school in
Elizavetgrad.
Elena
joined
the
party
in 1904. She worked
as
secretary
of the Bolshevik faction in the Fourth Duma.
In
1910 she
was
exiled
abroad and returned in 1913. Her work included the
editing
of such
party
publications
as
Pravda and Rabotnitsa. Until 1916
she worked
for
the Moscow
party
committee
but in June ofthat
year
she
was
arrested and this time exiled
to
Siberia.
In
February
next
year
she became
a
member of the Irkutsk
party
committee. On her
return to
Petrograd
in March of 1917 she worked
as a
member of the All-Russia Central VRK
Bureau and carried
out
propaganda
in the
city
garrisons.
At the
same
time she worked

182
on
the editorial staff of
Soldatskaia
Pravda.
During
October
days
she worked from
Smolny.
Samoilova
(nee
Gromova)
Konkordiia
Nikolaevna,
1876-1921
(party
name
-
Natasha)
born in
Irkutsk,
into the
family
of
a
village priest.
In the 1890s she
graduated
from the
Higher
Women's Courses in St.
Petersburg,
where she
first
became involved
in the
revolutionary
movement.
Konkordiia
joined
the
party
in 1902.
During
the 1905-
7 revolution she worked for the
party
among workers and
peasants
in
Odessa,
Moscow and Baku. Between 1908 and 1912 she
was
imprisoned
and exiled several
times.
In
the
period
between 1912 and 1914
Konkordiia
worked
as a
secretary
on
the
editorial staff of Rabotnitsa.
In
1914 she
was
arrested
at
one
of the editors'
meetings.
During
1917 she
was one
of the
prominent
party
activists and
orators.
After the
October Revolution Samoilova chaired the
Petrograd
Commission
on
work with
women-workers. She died of cholera while
working
on a
party
agitation
steamer.
Savel'eva Aleksandra
Vasil'evna,
1886-1964
joined
the
party
in 1904. She worked
as a
party
propagandist
in
Moscow,
Petersburg,
Ekaterinoslav,
Tsaritsyn,
Sormovo
and Nizhnii
Novgorod.
Between 1908 and 1912 she lived abroad
avoiding
arrest
but
continued
to
work for the
party
and
helped
to
smuggle
party
literature into Russia.
When
at
home Aleksandra
was
arrested
on
many occasions.
During
1917 she
worked
in
Nizhnii
Novgorod,
first in the Presidium
of
the local RSDRP Committee and
as an
editor of the Bolshevik newspaper lntematsional and later in October in the VRK.
Sheina
(nee Poldushkina)
Pelageia
Fedorovna,
1885-1964
joined
the
party
in 1905.
She
was
active in the
revolutionary
events
of
1905-7.
In
1909
Pelageia
was
arrested
and exiled
to
Saratov. Between 1911 and 1917 she worked for the
party
in Samara.
Shustova M.A.
a
textile worker from
Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
who in 1917
joined
the
RSDRP and
was
elected into the
city
Soviet.
Sinitsyna
T.A.
a
textile
worker,
and
a
member of Ivanovo-Voznesensk
city
Soviet in
1917.
Slutskaia Vera Klimentievna
(Berta
Bronislavovna),
1874-1917 born into the
family
of
a
Minsk artisan. She
was
trained
as a
professional
dentist. Vera
began
her
revolutionary
activities in 1898. In 1901 she became
a
member of the
Bund,
the
Jewish socialist
organisation.
In
1902 she
joined
the RSDRP. After
participating
in
the revolution of 1905 she
emigrated
abroad and returned
to
Russia in 1908
to
work
for the Bolshevik
party
in
Petersburg.
Between 1909 and 1913 she lived and studied
abroad. After the
February
revolution she worked in
a
Petrograd
district Soviet and
was a
member of the
city
RSDRP committee. After
April
1917 Vera worked
as a
secretary
of
a
Petrograd
district VRK. Slutskaia
was
arrested,
imprisoned
and exiled
on
several occasions. She died in
a
combat
during Kerensky-Krasnov
insurrection
against
the Bolshevik seizure of
power.
Smidovich Sofia
Nikolaevna,
1872-1934
daughter
of
a
lawyer,
Sofia
was
trained
as a
teacher. She
joined
the RSDRP in 1898. She worked
as a
party
propagandist
in
Moscow, Tula,
Kaluga
and Kiev.
During
1917 she
was a
secretary
of the Moscow
region
party
bureau CC. Sofia
was
arrested and exiled
on
many
ocasions.

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Sokolovskaia Sofia
Ivanovna,
1894-1938
(party
name
-
Svetlova Elena
Kirillovna)
joined
the RSDRP
formally only
in
1915,
but from 1903 she
was an
active
participant
of the student
revolutionary
movement
in
Chernigov,
Ukraine. After the
February
revolution Sofia became
a
member of
Chernigov
Soviet and
Regional Revolutionary
Committee.
Spiridonova
Mariia
Aleksandrovna,
1884-1941 born into the minor
nobility
in
Tambov. She
joined
the PSR in 1906. In 1906 she assassinated Tambov's
Deputy
Governor,
G.N.
Luzhenovsky.
For that she
was
sentenced
to
death which
was
commuted
to
life
katorga.
After the
February
Revolution she returned
to
Petrograd
and became
one
of the founder members of
the
Left SR
Party,
advocating
coalition
with the
Bolsheviks
in November 1917. She
was
repeatedly
arrested and
imprisoned
by
the
Bolsheviks
from 1918 and
was
eventually
condemned
to
death
by military
tribunal.
Stal Liudmila
Nikolaevna,
1872-1939
born into
a
Jewish
family
in Ekaterinoslav.
She
joined
the RSDRP in 1898. Stal left her
higher
educational studies before
completing
her
course.
She
was
arrested and exiled
on
many
occasions. Between 1907
and 1917 she lived and worked for the
party
abroad
escaping
arrest
and internal exile.
After the
February
Revolution she acted
as a
party
agitator
in
Petrograd.
From
August
1917 Liudmila worked
as an
editor of Proletarshoe
delo,
a
Kronstadt newspaper, and
as a
member of the
party
Executive Committee.
Stasova Elena
Dmitrievna,
1873-1966
(party
name
-Absoliui)
born into
a
noble
family.
Her
father
was a
leading Petersburg lawyer.
Elena
graduated
from the
women's
higher
educational
courses.
In the 1890s she
taught
at
a
Sunday
school.
Stasova
joined
the RSDRP in 1898. Between 1904 and 1906 she worked
as a
secretary
of the RSDRP Northern
Bureau,
Petersburg
Committee and Russian Bureau
CC.
During
the 1905-7 Revolution she
organised transportation
of
party
literature
from Geneva.
In
the
period
between 1907 and 1912 she worked in Tiflis. She
was
exiled
to
Eastern Siberia in 1913 and
returned
to
the
centre
in 1916. After the
February
Revolution she became
secretary
of the RSDRP CC. Stasova
was one
of the
active
organisers
and
participants
of the October Revolution.
Subbotina Lidiia I.
a
participant
of the 1905-7 Revolution. In 1917 she
was a
member of the Krasnoiarsk RSDRP committee.
Sulimova Mariia
Leontievna,
1881-1969
joined
the RSDRP in 1905. After the
February
Revolution she became
a
technical
secretary
of the
Petrograd
RSDRP
Committee and worked in the VRK. V.l. Lenin
was
hiding
in her flat
during July
events
of 1917.
From
August
1917 she worked in RSDRP Central Committee.
Sveshnikova
(mar.
Vydrina)
Mariia Nikolaevna
joined
the RSDRP in 1915. Until
1916 she lived in Moscow where she worked
as a
textile worker.
During
the
October
Revolution she worked
as a
party
propagandist
in
Petrograd.
Tiranina M.
a
worker,
she
was a
member
of
the Orekhovo-Zuevo Soviet in 1917.
Trofimova Tatiana
a
worker,
she
joined
the RSDRP in 1917. In
August
1917 she
was one
of the activists in the Bolshevik election
campaign
in Ivanovo-Voznesensk.

184
Troitskaia Elena
Ivanovna,
1897-alive in 1959
joined
RSDRP in 1916. She
was an
active
participant
in the
revolutionary
movement
of 1917 in Moscow.
Turin
Milda,
1891-1920 born into the
family
of
a
Latvian
factory
worker in Latvia.
On the
death of her mother
she,
still
a
child,
worked
as
batrachka
at
a
farm. Later
Milda moved
to
a
town to
work
at
a
factory.
In 1915 she
was
exiled
to
Siberia for
participation
in the strike
movement.
After the
February
revolution she returned
to
Moscow
where she worked
as a
party
branch
secretary.
Ulianova Mariia Hin
ich
na,
1878-1937 born in
Simbirsk,
the
daughter
of
a
school
inspector.
She
graduated
from various
courses
at
home and
abroad,
including
Brussels
University.
Mariia
joined
the RSDRP in 1898. From that
moment
and until 1917 she
worked for various RSDRP branches in
Moscow,
Kiev,
Saratov,
Petersburg/
Petrograd
and
abroad,
with
frequent
instances of
arrest
and short
imprisonment
and
exile. She then
spends
a
year
abroad. After the
February
Revolution she
was
elected
into the RSDRP CC. From March 1917 she worked
on
the editorial staff of Pravda.
Varentsova
Olga
Afanasievna,
1862-1950
joined
the RSDRP in 1893
(party
names
-
Mariia Ivanovna and Ekaterina
Nikolaevna).
She
was
born into
a
weaver's
family
in
Ivanovo-Voznesensk
(her
father
was a
former serf who had his
own
small
weaving
factory). Olga
was a
graduate
of Moscow's
Higher
Women's Courses. In the 1880s
she
was an
active student
revolutionary.
She
organised
and
ran
study
circles for
women-workers in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. In 1901-2 Varentsova
was a
member
of the
RSDRP CC and
secretary-in-chief
of the Northern Workers' Union. Between 1903
and 1917 she worked for the
party
in
Astrakhan, Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
Moscow,
Petersburg, Vologda
and Yaroslavl that also included executive roles. On many
occasions she
was
arrested and
imprisoned.
In
October of 1917 she
was a
member of
troika which headed the Bolshevik's
fight against
counter-revolutionaries.
Velicbkina Vera Mikhailovna
(mar. Bonch-Bruevich),
1868-1918
daughter
of
a
leading
Moscow doctor
(or
priest?).
She studied medicine in Zurich and became
a
doctor. Her involvement in the social democratic
movement
began
on
her
return to
Russia in the 1890s.
Vera
joined
the RSDRP in 1903.
In
1905 she worked for the
Duma SD faction. Prior
to
the October Revolution Velichkina
wrote
for various
party
publications, including Vpered,
Proletarii,
Pravda and Zvezda. After the
February
Revolution she worked
as a
secretary
on
the editorial staff of
Izvestiia,
and
Rabotnitsa,
and
was a
member of
a
Petrograd
district
party
committee. In October of
1917
she worked in the medical
department
of
Petrograd
VRK.
After the Revolution
Velichkina
was
active in
setting
up the Soviet health
system.
Veselova A.M.
a
worker,
she
joined
the
RSDRP
in 1917 and
was
active in the Tver
party
organisation.
Vishniakova Praskovia
Ivanovna,
1887-1961 born in Krasnodar
region
into
a
peasant
family.
She
joined
the RSDRP in 1903. Her
revolutionary
life centred around
the south of
Russia,
namely
Ekaterinodar. She
was
arrested and exiled
on numerous
occasions.
In
1917 she
was
the
only
woman-member of the
Ekaterinodar
RSDRP
Committee.

185
Voronova
Pelageia
Yakovlevoa,
1892-alive in 1959
joined
the RSDRP in
February
of 1917. In
October
of 1917 she
was a
party
activist in Ivanovo-Voznesensk.
Zapevalova
E.E.
a
textile-worker
from
Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
she
joined
the
RSDRP
in 1917
as an
active
trade
unionist.
Zaretskaia S.
began
work for the RSDRP
at
the
turn
of the
century.
She
was
a
talented
orator
and
propagandist. During
her
revolutionary
life
Zaretskaia
was
arrested and
imprisoned
on
many occasions. She
was a
member of the Menshevik
Central
Committee
in 1917.
Zelikson
(mar.
Bobrovskaia)
Tsetsiliia
Samoilovna,
1876-1960 born in Vitebsk
guberniia, daughter
of
a
white-collar worker. She
joined
the RSDRP in 1898. In 1904
she
was a
member of the Baku
party
committee. In 1905-7 she
was a
participant
of
revolutionary
events
in
Moscow,
working
as a
member of
a
district committee and
then
as a
secretary
of the
regional
bureau. Tsetsiliia
was a
party
propagandist
and
organiser working
in different
parts
of the
country,
e.g.
Kharkov, Tver,
Tiflis, Baku,
etc.
In
1917 she worked for Moscow Bolshevik
party
Committee.
Zemliachka
(nee Zalkind)
Rozaliia
Samoilovna,
1876-1947
(party
names
-
Demon
and
Osipov)
born in
Mogilev, daughter
of
a
wealthy
Jewish merchant. She
was
educated in
a
gymnasium.
She
joined
the RSDRP in 1896. She
was
arrested and
imprisoned
on
several occasions.
From
1903 Rozaliia
was
coopted
into the RSDRP
CC.
During
the 1905-7 Revolution she
was a
secretary
of Moscow Bolshevik
committee. In 1909 Zemliachka worked
as a
secretary
of Baku
party
committee. From
1915 she
worked
for Moscow
city
and
regional
party
committees.
In
October of 1917
she headed
a
Moscow district
party
organisation.

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APPENDIX FOUR
Archive
#124
All-Union
Society
of
Old Bolsheviks
(VSOB)
The archive
contains
two
lists
(inventories)
with
personal
case
studies between
1922,
the ASOB
foundation
year, and
1935,
the
year
when it
was
disbanded.
The second list
contains
names
of
people
who
were
refused
entry
into
the
society
or
whose
applications
arrived
after it had been
disbanded. The
first list has 2259
names
in
all,
of
which the
following
are
female,
arranged according
to
the Russian
alphabet:
l.
Abolin' Inna la.
1
(inventory
number)
2.
Abolin'
Ekaterina
Iu.
2
3.
Avaliani-Shiriaeva
Ekaterina E.
8
4.
Agrinskaia-Romanenko
Elizaveta K.
14
5.
Adamovich
Evgeniia
N.
15
6.
Aladzhalova Nina
N.
28
7.
Aleksandrova Natal'ia
A.
30
8.
Alekseeva Ekaterina A.
37
9.
Allilueva
Ol'ga
E.
40
10.
Andreeva
Evgeniia
I.
53
11.
Anson
Elizaveta
P.
6\,
12.
Artiukhina Aleksandra V.
83
13.
Aurin-Urbatsan
Ol'ga
A.
94
14.
Bavlentseva
Pelageia
I.
110
15.
Barkhatova Lidiia
N.
130
16.
BaskirRizaV.
133
17.
BaiarLizaM.
146
18.
Bezrukova Ekaterina V.
152
19.
Belaia
Ekaterina
I.
155
20.
Belova-Gavrilova
Ol'ga
A.
160
21.
Berzin' Elizaveta
L.
172
22.
Bertse Paulina
Iu.
177
23.
Beshenkovskaia Mariia S.
180
24.
Birgel'Al'vina
la.
184
25.
Bits
Anna I.
195
26.
BliumLinal.
205
27.
Bobrovskaia Tsetsiliia
S.
2J2
28.
Bogdanovich
Elizaveta
N.
221
29.
Bogorad
Mina L.
226
30.
Boikova Lidiia I.
230
31.
Boimenblit
AnnaE.
231
32.
Bondareva Ida I.
234
33.
Bondarenko
Anna M.
235
34.
Borman Paulina
F.
242
35.
Brodskaia Sarra
A.
253
36.
Bronshtein
Vera
S.
255
37.
Brusilovskaia Mariia V.
258
38.
Brutser-Pel'sheLuizal.
259

187
39.
Bubleeva-Buksina
Varvara V.
262
40.
Bubnova Mariia K.
264
41.
Budnitskaia
Anna E.
268
42.
Butovets-Kotsin'-Ozolina
Emma la.
283
43.
Bystrova
Liudmila
M.
293
44.
Bychkova
Anna N.
296
45. VaneevaEkaterinaN.
300
46.
Varbot Made F.
301
47.
Varentsova
Ol'ga
V.
303
48.
Vasil'eva-Nikitina
Elizaveta
A.
321
49. Veider Mariia M.
331
50.
Veiland
Ol'ga
S.
332
51.
Vetoshkina Aleksandra I.
347
52.
Vil'mut Al'ma
M.
355
53.
Vinokurova
Anna P.
364
54.VintinaMil'daK.
368
55.
Vishniakova
Praskov'ia
I.
377
56.
Vladimireva
Vera
F.
381
57. Voinova Kseniia
I.
389
58. Vol'stein Lisa I.
402
59.
Vorob'eva Rosa
N.
409
60. Gavrilova Klavdiia N.
426
61.
Gvozdikova-Frumkina Ekaterina E.
449
62. Gerasimova Mariia
A.
458
63. German
Ol'ga
F.
465
64. Gertsovskaia Elizaveta I.
467
65.
Ginzburg
Anna B.
469
66.
Girshfel'd
Ol'ga
S.
471
67.
Glevitskaia Evdokiia la.
473
68.
Golubeva-Romberg
Elizaveta
K.
487
69. Golubeva Mariia
P.
488
70. Golubiatko-Mal'kind Sofia
V.
491
71.
Gopner
Serafima
I.
494
72.
Gorshkova Aleksandra
N.
510
73.
Gregorson
Mariia
K.
520
74.
Dargol'ts
Tsetsiliia
I.
566
75.
Degtiareva-Boksberg
(Zenta) Avgusta
la.
572
76. Denisova Elizaveta S.
578
77.
Dzhaparidze
Varvara
M.
583
78. Dzerzhinskaia-Mushkat Sofia S.
588
79. Dimant Rahil'
la.
593
80. Dmitrieva Praskov' ia D.
598
81.DobkinaVeraG.
600
82. Dodonova
Anna A.
603
83. Drabkina Feodosiia
I.
610
84. Dracheva Mariia N.
612
85. Dubrovimskaia Aleksandra D.
617
86.
Elagina
Elizaveta
A.
633
87.
Elagina Agaf
ia
A.
632
88. Elizarova
Anna